Iweb url question

Hello everyone,
I am wondering if it's possible to create my own unique url name for my iweb site. I'm thinking of using godaddy.com or yahoo.com's domain hosting services to host my site for 2.99 a year, so that I could create my own domain name. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Steve

Well, lessee, this all depends on how you want to do this.
Are you already hosting your iWeb site on you .Mac account? If you are hosting your site of your .mac account the URL will probably look something like:
"http://web.mac.com/<your.macnamehere>/iWeb/"
All then you would need to do is to go to Godaddy.com and register a domain name (www.yourdomainname.com) and have godaddy.com forward that domain name to your .mac site.
Once all this is set up, anyone visiting your site could go about it in 2 ways. First, they could just open a web browser and enter "http://web.mac.com/<your.macnamehere>/iWeb/" and get to your site.
OR, they could enter the site name you registered (www.yourdomainname.com) and it would immediately forward the browser to "http://web.mac.com/<your.macnamehere>/iWeb/". For the rest of the time that person is browsing your site, all the URLs would look like your .mac url. This sounds to me like what you're asking for.
Now, if you want to have your site fully hosted on "www.yourdomainname.com" without the URL changing to "http://web.mac.com/<your.macnamehere>/iWeb/" once you start browsing the site, then that's a whole different set of instructions, cause then you'd need to buy hosting space and manually upload your site to that server instead of just using iWeb's built in "publish to .mac" function.

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http://web.mac.com/duejan/iWeb/Site/Jan%20Due.html
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Only A-Z, 0-9, and (_)
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If they offer forwarding, then you really should be able you use a / its standard in all url's. I would contact them and ask!
The other thing that you could do, if you have any webspace with them, is to add a redirect page.
Text copied and changed slightly, to suit, from bluehens post in this thread.
Create an index.html file and upload it, to create the file, open TextEdit.
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Paste the following text, substituting the URL you want to link to.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title></title><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.html" /></head><body></body></html>
Save As, Index.html, then upload it to your webspace.
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IWeb Password Question

When using iWeb i want to place a password on one select page. However, when i do this it places a password on the entire website. Is there a way about going to have a password for only one page and not my entire .mac website through iWeb?
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You are right. The password protection feature works on a sitewide basis...not page by page. So the workaround then is to create another site in iWeb and put the protected page in that site. Then you can password protect the site. You can then refer people to this password protected site by creating a link in the unprotected site.
Or you can just leave the password protected site by itself and access it like you would any other site by specifying the entire path to the site itself (instead of using your short iWeb URL)...
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If you want to go really fancy, you could make a link to your protected site appear just like any other link in your navigation menu on the top of all your pages. This would require some post-publishing editing of the HTML code, and it may be more trouble than it is worth to you. But here is a tutorial page from varkgirl that goes through the process...
http://web.mac.com/varkgirl/iWeb/Aardvarkland/Nav%20Bar.html
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IWeb, URL & RSS Feed Question

Hi,
I am trying to submit a video podcast to iTunes. I made the site with iWeb. I published it to a folder since I was placing it another hosting service.
1. When I publish to a folder iWeb asks for an address to set up the feed. My website is www.mediasupport.net. The address of the podcast page (one with the purple tower) is:
www.mediasupport.net/podcast/podcast.html. The address of the page with the actual movie on it is:
http://www.mediasupport.net/Podcast/2F164FF5-5706-41CE-9322-799D016FD259.html.
2. What address do I use for the URL that iWeb asks for when you publish to a folder?
3. When I go to iTunes to check to check for a valid feed I always get an error like -" link does not appear to be a valid..."
The last address I tried was itcp://www.mediasupport.net/Podcast/2F164FF5-5706-41CE-9322-799D016FD259.html
Thanks for your help,
Phil
G5 Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.8)
G5 Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Where are you seeing these 'Play' buttons? I don't see any in the associated website, and the feed wouldn't contain them anyway.
All your episodes appear when subscribing in iTunes. All five episodes in the web page version of the Store page at
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/chris-brake-show-podcast/id725989655
but in the Store itself only the episode of 20 October appears, though the Store claims to be listing four episodes (it would be normal for today's episode not to have appeared yet). This I'm afraid is a bug in the Store which has been intermittently appearing for some time, and there isn't really anything you can do about it. Hopefully it will sort itself out eventually: your feed is OK.

Url question in iweb

I originally set up my site for mobileme and now cant seem to get the url name that I want. The site appears in the browser location as:
http://pletchworth.com/pletchworth/Paul_Letchworth.html/
Seems a little unecessary to have so many names!!
Is there any way I can set this up to be only :
http://www.pletchworth.com
Many thanks

This is because iWeb places each of its sites in a folder with the site name, in this case 'pletchworth'. If it didn't do this, chaos would result when you added a second site. You can't really tamper with it, because it's designed to work this way and it's not congfigurable. If you start messing with the folder structure manually after publication you will cause problems.
One trick you could do would be to use a framing index page at root level instead of the current redirection one. This would result in just the domain name remaining in the address bar as you navigate the site, but it makes it impossible for visitors to bookmark individual pages. It also has the unwanted result of making any other sites you link to appear also with your domain name in the address bar, unless you specify that the links open in a new window in the pane for creating a hyperlink.
The method for doing this is as follows. Paste the following code into TextEdit in PLAIN TEXT mode (not Rich Text which is often the default):
<html>
<head><title>PAUL LETCHWORTH</title></head>
<frameset cols="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.pletchworth.com/pletchworth/Paul_Letchworth.html">
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Save it as index.html - TextEdit will offer to use .txt instead, don't let it. When you've published your site, upload this file to the root level of your server to replace the existing index.html file. You will need to do this after every time you re-publish your site as iWeb will overwrite your index.html file.

Issue with new iWeb URLs

As you may know, iWeb 08 creates a new URL when publishing, and this is creating me a few issues.
My previous website URL was:
http://web.mac.com/gianlucamarucci/iWeb/gianlucamarucci.com
and my domain (www.gianlucamarucci.com) was redirected here
the new URL iWeb 08 creates is
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What I do not understand is the following:
1. when i complete publishing and click on visit, iWeb is pointing at the old URL!
2. if i am in my .Mac homepage and click on the links of my pages on the left, they point at the old URL too!
How is it possible? does anyone know how to sort this out?
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gianluca

Hi Cassio,
I just did a quick read up on the new front end editior and found the following tips from SAP. Maybe there could be something to help you out.
How to report a bug
Verify that you have the newest version of the editor installed. You can update your control with this script - maybe your problem has already been fixed. (This applies to beta testers ONLY!)
Check the internal FAQ (CSN note 812186) for up-to-date information about known problems.
Find out who is responsible. If the error relates to the syntax highlighting or the code completion, create an internal message for component BC-ABA-LA. In all other cases create an internal message for component BC-FES-GUI.
Please provide clear step-by-step instruction of how to reproduce this error.
Please be patient - we try to fix bugs as quickly as possible, but propagating the corrections may require some time. If something breaks and a fix is not yet available, you can always disable code hints or code completion in the settings dialog.

URL questions

Hello,
I recently set up a domain name with GoDaddy, and I have my site hosted on MobileMe. I have a couple of questions:
1. when I type in www.(sitename).com it goes to my site. but when i type (sitename).com it goes to the GoDaddy.com placeholder page. I've edited the www CNAME to web.me.com and from what I have already read, I'm only allowed one www CNAME. How can I make both options work?
2. My current URL is www.(sitename).com/(name of site in iWeb)/pagename.html
I would like the junk in the middle gone. I'm not concerned with google searching...those wishing to visit my site will visit because they are directed there for a very specific reason, not because of widespread notoriety. I don't mind www.(sitename).com/home.html either.
Can someone help? Thanks!

1. It is correct that you can only use CNAME once, but this is generally for one domain name. Basically, your domain name is actually domainname.com with the www.domainname.com being a sub domain of domainname.com. What you need to do is go back to GoDaddy and go to the DNS settings and if you set the CNAME for www.domainname.com, you need to create a new CNAME there and just enter domainname.com without the www - so that will be the alias with the host being exactly the same as before - web.me.com. You are still only using one CNAME, as it is still only relating to one domain name.
The only being able to use CNAME once for every MobileMe account relates to the number of sites with domain names attached to them, so if you have two site in iWeb, published under one MME account, you can enter your domain name for one site and then set up CNAME forwarding, but if you want to publish your second site using a domain name, you would have to forward this using ordinary masked web forwarding.
2. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do about this unless you change your method of forwarding your domain name from CNAME to ordinary masked web forwarding.
If you publish to MME and use CNAME, then the way in which iWeb publishes to your MME/iDisk is domainname.com/sitename/pagename.
If you want anything different, then you need to remove CNAME or use masked web forwarding instead, so that your domain will be forwarded to web.me.com/username/sitename and then your url will be http://yourdomain.com. There will then be no site name or page name displayed after your domain name, but visitors to your site cannot bookmark individual pages of your site if you do it this way. They have to bookmark the whole site instead.
Your only other option here is that you purchase a web hosting package from GoDaddy and upload your site directly to the GoDaddy servers. You can publish to a folder and upload using Cyberduck and with this, you can upload the contents of your site folder rather than the whole folder itself and so your url will then be http://yourdomain.com/pagename.

How to shorten iWeb URLs

I see that I can change the master iWeb page's URL.
But I cannot shorten the sub-pages.
How can I change a blog/blank/photo page's url to be:
http://web.me.com/lastname/pagename
Thanks,
Mike

You can't do what you want. With MMe it has to be:
http://web.me.com/MMeAccount_Name/Site_Name/PageName.html.
The only way you can change that is to purchase a domain name and have domain name forwarding.
Using the CNAME method. That will give you the following URL:
http://www.yourdomainname.com/SiteName/PageName.html, still more than you want.
If you use the simple URL forwarding and masking you will get:
http://www.your-domain-name.com/
This will be for each page in the site. The downside to this masking is that visitors can only bookmark the first page of the site. That may or may not be a problem for you. My tutorial site is set up that way: http://toadstutorials.info/
Here are some topics and pages regarding domain names with MobileMe:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=MobileMe/Account/en/acct17114.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1164519&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9617432#9617432
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Domains.html
*The only URL you need to give to others for accessing your site is http://web.me.com/MMeAccountName*
OT
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IWeb URL

Can not find my pre-Cloud web pages and photo galleries... What was the former me.co/Mac.com / AppleID / we page. URL ??
So frustrating, I can not find my photos
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IWeb Url Username and Password protection problem

After renewing a GoDaddy site and re-forwarding an already created iWeb site, I now get a .Mac required User Name and Password. What happened.? I just re-forwarded the url string that was already there on my .mac server.

Hi Robert
I am no expert but I just did a web site as well. If you want to protect it in IWEB click on your welcome page and at the bottom of the page you have a menu selection click on the icon for the inspector. looks like an italizised I then click over the menu option at the top of that that says password. you should be able to do it that way. good luck marty

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A friend of mine created a site in iWeb, which I am in the process of rebuilding in DW.
We're under an extremely tight deadline and I'm concerned about one very specific point.
I don't know much about iWeb, but when you click on one of his links, it brings up another page, but the URL at the top remains the same.
When I rebuild, and have links to other pages, that won't be the case.
However, since I'm hosting it somewhere else, with a different URL, it will say something different when you click on the link.
Since time is of the essence, and this site will only matter for a few more days (it's for a local candidate for a school committee election on Tuesday), it could look bad if the URL gets all funky with different addresses than the actual candidates. Yet we don't have time for him to turn the URL over to me for my control, as it would need to propogate.
He said that he can just point his URL to my new differently hosted homepage easily enough, however, when people click on the links, the URL will change.
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it seems like the previous designer was using domain masking. I would not recommend it for various reasons, but if "time is of the essence" then it may be a quick fix for you.

Iweb issue - question marks ??

Hello
I'm a new user to iweb and this is my first post.
Basically I have been getting used to the iweb app for a few days now and have started putting a basic website tigether as a kind of online cv for the work I do.
I currently have a small amount of web space (55meg) with my broadband account and have been using this to publish and test my web site.
I have been using Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer 5.2 on my G5 to view the web site.
Generally everything looks fine, but the odd question mark symbol keeps popping up. Ironically the site seems to look best in IE, but question mark symbols show up in all three browsers.
I wondered if anyone may be able to help with this ?
Many thanks in advance
Dual 1.8 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi rdfmusic and welcome to the iWeb forum!
Your problem is a common one when publishing to a non .Mac server but is easily fixed. Tom Gewecke has created a page that addresses this with the solution:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebchars.html
Tom has also set up a page with links to a lot of tips on using iWeb:
http://web.mac.com/thgewecke/iWeb/1/Tips.html
Others have also put lots of other iWeb tips in their web sites, you can search in this forum for those who have been most helpful and click on the link to their sites.
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IWeb - URL name problem

Quick facts: I have created a website on iWeb. I am going to host this site using Mobile Me. I have purchased a domain name on Go Daddy. I changed the CNAME on Go Daddy to web.me.com
On iWeb when I publish my site, it appears to publish just fine. The problem is that it duplicates the URL name. Instead of www.mydomain.com, it reads www.mydomain.com/www.mydomain.com. When I navigate to www.mydomain.com, nothing comes up. But, when I type in www.mydomain.com/www.mydomain.com, my website comes up.
Has anyone had this problem, and how have you resolved it? I am new to all of this, so if I have not used the proper terminology, please feel free to correct me. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you!

Thank you for your response. This was somewhat helpful, and I did re-name the site as you suggested. However, I am still having the same problem in that if I simply type in www.mydomain.com, I cannot get to my page. I have to type www.mydomain.com/xyz in order to get to my page.
I have gone to Go Daddy to try to get it to forward from www.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com/xyz, but that does not appear to be working.

Iweb URL is the same for every page

I have a small website built on iweb with a personal domain name, www.westonbennett.com and if you click on any of my pages the url doesn't change and is still www.westonbennett.com and I would like it to be a unique url for every page. Can anyone help me out?

Hi,
welcome to the Apple iWeb Discussion Forums!
What you did is webforward with cloaking/masking whose result is giving the same url for all pages.
What you should do to get yourdomain.com/sitename/pagename.html instead is change the CNAME
Have a look at the following page to know how to achieve that
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_Domains.html
Regards,
Cédric

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the masked site is http://thisisascienceproject.com
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Holding my breath for some advice...
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The code being used to forward to your .Mac url appears to be wrong, in particular the "head" section. Ask the people who made it to run it through the w3c validator and fix it.

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